Student: "If that is so, Master, then perhaps I should lose my attachment to God. Only then will I cease being anxious over wondering if He really loves me."
Teacher: (stunned silence)
05 April 2011
Overheard In The Temple: A Short Play
Teacher: "It is our attachments to things that cause us anxiety and grief. We must lose our attachments if we want to find peace."
Student: "If that is so, Master, then perhaps I should lose my attachment to God. Only then will I cease being anxious over wondering if He really loves me."
Teacher: (stunned silence)
Student: (blows out candle; exits)
Student: "If that is so, Master, then perhaps I should lose my attachment to God. Only then will I cease being anxious over wondering if He really loves me."
Teacher: (stunned silence)
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Never happen - the Master would immediately tell the Student that God does, indeed, love him and that is that.
ReplyDeleteJan
Clapping. Totally worth the price of admission.
ReplyDeleteummm wait a minute, I think you have just blown the cover on about 8,000 years of religious dogma....
ReplyDeletethis doesn't work for me, in that, the Teacher is speaking in Zen, but the Student is talking in Christianity. Buddhists don't believe in a "God" and certainly a "God" that would personal "love" someone.
ReplyDeleteI remember being so young once :)
ReplyDelete? is not does God love you. ? is do you love God.
ReplyDeleteHmm. A lot here to think about....mostly hypocrisy.
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